Liberty is a duty, not a right.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State — a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values — interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.
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It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
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National pride has no need of the delirium of race.
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If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!
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A century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.
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There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
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What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.
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Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.
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Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views.
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The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose… mine!
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This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.
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On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results.
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Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
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Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
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War is to man what maternity is to a woman
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Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter’s prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes’ excellent little book,
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We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
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There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
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The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
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I have been a racist since 1921. I don’t know how they can think I’m imitating Hitler.
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